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Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
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1906-1947
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9 Cubic feet (18 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1987.0029
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The years before World War I were spent in patent litigation for aviation pioneers Glenn Curtiss and Orville and Wilbur Wright.
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United States. Patent Office.
Goddard, Robert Hutchings, 1882-1945
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1914-1956
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2 Volumes ((various pagings), ill., 29 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- SIL-RR.TL513.G57
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Smithsonian Libraries
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Woodard, William E., 1873-1942 (inventor)
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1909 - 1949
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3.3 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0125
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of United States, Canadian, Mexican and other foreign patents issued to William E. Woodard from 1909 to 1949. The patents are for Woodard's developments in steam and electric locomotive design.
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Dodge, W.C.
Clark, Alexander Melville
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
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1877
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1017
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A British patent issued to Alexander Melville Clark for an improved process for preventing the accumulation of carbon in retorts used for the distillation of carbureted hydrogen. There is a wax seal attached to the end of the patent.
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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Patents
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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1850-1936
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4.68 Cubic feet (consisting of 10 boxes, 3 folders, 5 oversize folders, 1 map case folder. )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Patents
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Patents forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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Booth, Franklin, 1874-1948 (bookplate designer)
Moses, Raphael Jacob, 1844-1909
Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences (U.S.)
National Aeronautic Association (U.S.)
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1897-1906
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1 Volume ((various pagings), ill., 29 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- SIL-RR.TL513.U572
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Smithsonian Libraries
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United States. Patent Office.
Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences (U.S.). Aeronautical Archives
Landauer, Bella Clara, 1874-
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1844-1906
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4 Volumes (ill., 29 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- SIL-RR.TL513.U57u
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Smithsonian Libraries
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Ewin, James Lithgow (inventor)
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1873, 1874, 1879.
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1 Cubic foot (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0051
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection includes an English patent paper #2126 for improved vulcanizable water-proof gum, 1873, to Benjamin Joseph Barnard Mills; a U.S. patent paper #151,109 for improvement in the art of manufacturing horseshoes, 1874; and an English patent paper #1194 for improvement in street-lighting apparatus.
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Cooper, Madison, 1868-1946
Madison Cooper Company (Watertown, N.Y.)
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1900-1963
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0.25 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1054
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Madison Cooper was an inventor and manufacturer of refrigerating systems in the early twentieth century. Cooper received several patents for his refrigeration inventions, including several refrigerating apparatuses, an air-circulating system, a process for preventing the formation of frost on refrigerating surfaces and a refrigeration train car. The collection spans 1900-1963 and includes his United States and foreign patents, his publications related to refrigeration, and a few documents and photographs related to Cooper and the Madison Cooper Company.
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Federico, P. J.
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1789-1841.
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0298
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Two notebooks: One is marked "Patent Office" and contains materials 1789-1841, relating to the Patent Office's early years and copies of official reports to the Congress. The second notebook is marked "Elliot" and consists mainly of the Elliot controversies.